Chili Con Kasha Food

The texture seems more like chili con carne than most vegetarian chilies. We love this and have it often.

Provided by Smirk

Categories     Beans

Time 1h15m

Yield 2-3 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 18

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 336.3, Fat 9.5, SaturatedFat 1.4, Sodium 656.1, Carbohydrate 46, Fiber 13.2, Sugar 6, Protein 12.1

It was a love of kasha and memories of family that inspired Nancy Jane Richer of Knoxville, Tenn., to create this holiday recipe. Ms. Richer's father loved kasha and died on Thanksgiving more than a decade ago. Recently, Ms. Richer spotted wild turkeys in her winter vegetable garden. For her, it felt like a message. "It was a magical omen," Ms. Richer said. The result is this spicy take on kasha, created in memory of Ms. Richer's parents. The dish is robust enough to eat as a vegetarian main course, but also tempting as a side dish for everyone at the table.

Provided by Tara Parker-Pope

Categories     main course, side dish

Time 1h15m

Yield 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 21

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 495, UnsaturatedFat 12 grams, Carbohydrate 48 grams, Fat 26 grams, Fiber 11 grams, Protein 23 grams, SaturatedFat 11 grams, Sodium 796 milligrams, Sugar 10 grams, TransFat 1 gram

For years I have had uneven results with buckwheat groats, or kasha, as the dry-roasted grains are called. I have tried different methods, both stovetop and oven, and usually mixed the grains with an egg before cooking. Sometimes my grains cooked up to a mush, other times they held their shape but still seemed rather soft and indistinct. I sort of gave up on kasha for a while, opting for more predictable grains and pseudo-grains like quinoa and spelt. But I love the flavor of buckwheat, so this week I took another stab at buckwheat groats with a box of medium-grain kasha I bought at the supermarket - and everything changed. These grains were cracked, like bulgur, something I hadn't seen before. I followed the directions on the box, and they turned out perfect -- dry and fluffy, with the wonderful nutty/earthy buckwheat flavor I find so appealing. To see if it was the cut of the grain only or the combination of the cut of the grain and the cooking method that gave me such good results, I used the exact same cooking method using whole toasted buckwheat groats. The whole groats turned out better than any I had made before, but they took three times as long to cook than the cracked groats, yielded a little less, and because all of the egg is not absorbed by the whole grains the way it is by the cracked grains, which have more cut surfaces to absorb the egg, you get some egg flakes floating on the top of the cooked kasha, which is not very attractive (though it's easy to remove them).

Provided by Martha Rose Shulman

Categories     breakfast, dinner, lunch, vegetables, main course, side dish

Time 30m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 5

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 183, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 31 grams, Fat 5 grams, Fiber 4 grams, Protein 6 grams, SaturatedFat 2 grams, Sodium 404 milligrams, Sugar 0 grams, TransFat 0 grams